Stories

This a love story. A challenging, bittersweet romance between a poet and a painter. Tarek loves Tommy, who suffers from depression and mental illness. They are happy – for a time.

Gary's best friend, Jace, has just been dumped by someone he really cared for. While trying to console him, will sympathy be confused with something else? Or is a hug all that is needed to get through the night?

Submitted for the "Good intentions" Anthology.

Liam Taylor is finally at the stupor of his life. His deadline is approaching for his latest true crime work, his best friend is any and all liquor, and his real best friend is his supplier. He's still haunted by what could have been, and what should have been, after the event that tore his family apart.

That all is, until a young boy comes into his midst: his dead twin brother, Noah.

And a serial killer with a new potential victim.

Just some of my thoughts in poetic form.

"The child lay in his bed, curled up into a fetal position as he stared at the door across from him. It wasn't a door. It was a giant flab of flesh, glowing like when you put a flashlight under your hand, and breathing like a lung. It breathed slowly, filling with air and then flattening out. Then it breathed again. The boy was too scared to close his eyes, so he stared at the door that never left his room. It had been there for months. Haunting the child. Traumatizing him."

When a father's son goes missing, he has to venture into a world of nonsense and horror to bring him back.

Four queer boys from very different backgrounds come of age together in their final school years, learning what it truly means to love and to hate, to cry and to laugh, to struggle and to succeed.

In the summer of 1993, a group of high school friends in a small town are forced to grow up overnight when love, bigotry, betrayal and mystery rain down on them in equal amounts.

Twelve-year-old Carson catches his fifteen-year-old brother, Logan at a pivotal moment with a gun in his hand and learns about a secret he has been keeping for months.

Declan was the epitome of strength, the top defensive back, top student in his classes, part of THE top-notch football team. But when he fails a basic challenge in front of his entire team--especially to a tiny thing like Bailey McIntyre--he's furious. So is his team captain. And Declan just can't seem let it go. And it gets worse... because he starts to think about Bailey as more than just the guy who destroyed his reputation.

Poems written when I was 22 years old.